FUTURE FORETOLD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 117, 16 June 1941, Page 5

FUTURE FORETOLD

MOTHER SHIFT ON'S PROPHECY' This is a time wlien prophecies av-> brought up for inspection anis judgment. Most of them, of course, i'-re little short of pure guesswork. A recent survev of one man's prophecies for the year 1940 showed hini to he S5 per cent correct. Thes--* were purely Astrological. Astrology* and Horology were once very closc partners as is witnessed by the oldt clocks. Perhaps this is not to be wondered at seeing that both were con—, oerned with planetary transits fov marking the passage of time. The nortnership dissolved when the key to Astrology was lost, and charletons took over. Some day the partnership will be revived with the finding «-f the key. A passage in an early Bibte discloses that Christ made prophecies based on planetary configurations. Mother Ship ton's prophecies have become classics. She may have beei* a witch as was supposed. On tha other hand she may have been one of a very feAV njortals permitted by some Higher Authority, to lift the veil. Here is the poem most widely circulated.

A house of glass shall come to pass, In merry England but alas, War will follow with the work In the land of the Turk. And sftate and state in fierce strife. Struggle for each other's life, Carriages without horses shall go, And accidents, fill the world with woe* In London Primrose Hill shall be And the ccntre of a Bishop's See Around the world thought shall fly, In the twinkling of an eye. Through the hills men shall ride, And neither horse nor ass bestride.. Under Avater men shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk. Iron in the water will-afloat As easily as a wooden boat. Gold shall be found and shown, In a land that's now unknown. Fire and water shall wonders do, And England shall admit a Jew. Three times" shall lovely France, Be led to dance a bloody dance, Before her people shall be free, Three tyrant rulers shall she see, Each springing from a different dynasty. And when the last great fight is won* England and France shall be as one. And now a word in uncouth rhyme , Of what shall be in latter time. In those wonderful far off days Women shall get a strange odd craze To dress like men and breeches wear And cut off their beautiful locks of hair, And ride astride with brazen brow As witches do on broomsticks now. Then love shall die and marriage cease And babes and sucklings so decrease That wives shall fondle cats and dogs And men live much the same hogs In eighteen hundred and ninety-six Build your houses of rotten sticks,. For then shall iMghty wars Iks planned And fire and sword sweep over the land, And those who live the century through In fear and trembling this will dd ; Fly to the mountains and to the glens To bogs and forests and wild dens For tempests will rage and oceans will roar And Gabriel stand on sea and shore; And as he toots his wonderful horn. Old worlds shall die and new be born. [n the air men shall be seen, Tn white, in black, in green; Now strange, but yet they shall be true, rhe world upside down shall be And gold shall be found at the roots of a tree. ■Through hills men shall ride And horse nor ass be not at his side. It will be seen that the following was thus foretold : Crystal Palace, London; The Turkish War; Advent of the Motor Car; Advent of the Aeroplane; Invention of Radio; The Submarine; Gold in Australia; Fran-co-Prussian Was; British-French Alliance; Women's Fashions trend; Decline of the Birth Rate; Evacuation of cities. A cock-eyed world.